A US judge has called into question the “safe harbour” defence in relation to 55 specific videos on Vimeo.

The video platform argues that it is protected from being liable for copyrighted videos uploaded by its users in a long-running lawsuit filed by Capitol Records and other major record labels back in 2009.

Among the labels arguments was the claim that the site’s content monitoring system did not go far enough to red flag copyright infringing videos. But Judge Ronnie ...